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Born February 8, 1911 • Worcester • Massachusetts
Died October 6, 1979 (aged 68) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors National Book Award (1970) • Pulitzer Prize (1956)
Notable Works “Geography III” • “North & South” • “Questions of Travel”

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Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
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Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
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Robert Hass
American poet and translator
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
American poet
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William Meredith
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
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C.K. Williams
American poet
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
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James Merrill
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
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Robert Bly
American author
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder
American poet
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Richard Howard
American author
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet

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